Guitar Slim

Eddie Jones, known as Guitar Slim, was an American guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", for Specialty Records. It is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted tones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix.

10 December 1926

Born on the same birth day (10 December): Adolf Loos • Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este • Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours • Johann Nicolaus Mempel • Marios Varvoglis • Rasul Guliyev • Rob Blake • Steve Renko • Yang Jianping

Born in the same month (December 1926): A. N. R. Robinson • Alcides Ghiggia • Allyn Ann McLerie • Big Mama Thornton • Billy Snedden • David Nathan (journalist) • Harold Dorman • Henry Way Kendall • Jeffrey Stone • Joe Paterno • John Hans Krebs • Keith Michell • Valerie Pearl